My six year old chef’s knife broke yesterday during the making of shepherd’s pie. It was a good knife while it lasted – $11 from London Drugs, but had superb balance and strength, was easy to sharpen, and had no issues with rusting or staining. *Tear* I’d like to blame the bf and his questionable culinary skills, but after a thorough post-mortem (it had a half CENTIMETER tang, if that!)...

Buying the first condo
We bought our first condo at the age of 25, in March 2010. Hard to believe, but even with the mortgage, strata, taxes and money set aside for maintenance, we were paying less for our condo per month than what we paid to rent in Vancouver!
When we first bought the condo, it was assessed at 210k. At the time, we paid 250k for it, 10k less than the asking price. We got our...